A memoir of Central India : including Malwa, and adjoining provinces : with the history, and copious illustrations, of the
past and present condition of that country by John Malcolm(
Book
)37
editions published
between
1823
and
2012
in
English and Marathi
and held by
93 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) was a soldier and diplomat in British India and Persia. He returned to India on the eve of the
British conquest of Malwa, a region of central India previously little known to Europeans, in 1818. Malcolm studied the region's
geology, its agriculture and the history of its ruling families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His reports were
first published in Calcutta in 1821, and were revised and expanded for publication in two volumes in London in 1823. Based
on interviews with native inhabitants and oral testimonies, Malcolm's work was the leading authority on Malwa until the 1930s.
Despite more recent scholarship on the region, Malcolm's work remains valuable for its first-hand account of nineteenth-century
Malwa's politics, culture and society. Volume 1 contains overviews of Malwa's geology, agriculture and the government of the
leading families

Sketch of the political history of India from the introduction of Mr. Pitt's bill, A.D. 1784, to the present date by John Malcolm(
Book
)17
editions published
between
1811
and
2011
in
English
and held by
65 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This 'sketch' by John Malcolm (1769-1833), covers a relatively small period - from the introduction of the India Bill in 1784
to the book's publication in 1811. The bill marked the beginning of increased government control over the East India Company,
and Malcolm had arrived in India the year before it was passed and had an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of British
influence and ambitions in India. In over five hundred pages, he examines governance in India, covering the administrations
of Lord Cornwallis, Sir John Shore and Marquis Wellesley, all of whom he served under in increasingly important roles. Malcolm
went on to write other books about India and Persia, where he also spent several years, and in 1827 became Governor of Bombay.
His Sketch of India gives an insider's perspective on a crucial period in the consolidation of British authority in large
areas of the subcontinent

The government of India by John Malcolm(
Book
)18
editions published
between
1833
and
2012
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
62 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Sketch of the Sikhs by John Malcolm(
Book
)8
editions published
between
1810
and
2012
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
28 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

The political history of India by John Malcolm(
Book
)24
editions published
between
1826
and
2012
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
22 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) was a diplomat and administrator in India. He arrived there in 1783 as a cadet in the East India
Company, was quickly promoted, and soon moved into political and diplomatic roles where his linguistic skills proved extremely
useful. In 1799 he was dispatched to Persia by Lord Wellesley, and concluded two important treaties. He returned to India
in 1801 and towards the end of his career became the governor of Bengal (1827-1830). He wrote several books on India and Persia,
including this two-volume history, published in 1826, which documents the period Malcolm himself had spent in India. Volume
1 incorporates content from Malcolm's earlier Sketch of Political India (1811). It covers the administrations of Lord Cornwallis,
Sir John Shore, Marquess Wellesley, Lord Minto and the Marquess of Hastings, which marked a period of extensive British expansion
into Indian territory